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Month: March 2014

As you probably are all aware, the sessions from Project Conference 2014 have all been made available online. Here’s my list of the “must see” sessions. The only problem, of course, is that I didn’t get to see all of the sessions – in fact, I didn’t get to see very many sessions at all.

Hence my list is basically culled from the list of what other folks have told me that I should see. It’s a good start, I suppose – and not intended to disparage anyone’s presentations that didn’t make the list.

Gartner Shares the Most Important PPM Trends for 2014; Donna Fitzgerald and Ben Chamberlain. If you’re a PMO director or often called to play the role of one, make sure to see this presentation on how to do portfolio management – and make sure you have your Amazon account open on another screen and a credit card handy as you’ll be buying a number of books after this.

When Project Online was first released, there was no mechanism to refresh Excel reports consuming OData feeds. Users were encouraged to open the Excel reports and manually refresh the reports. Macros were written. Hair was pulled in frustration.